The document summarizes social media trends related to the Gezi Park protests in Turkey from May 31st to June 1st. It found that the number of tweets from Turkey tripled during this period, with the hashtag #DirenGeziParki generating over 4 million tweets. It also analyzed the most frequently used words in Turkish tweets, the top trending hashtags, and two influential photos shared on social media from the protests. The document shows how social media played a major role in spreading information about the Gezi Park protests both within Turkey and internationally.

1. Gezi Parki and Social Media Trends
June 1st, 2013
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2. Table
of
Contents
§ Tradi0onal
Media
vs.
Social
Media
§ Rise
of
the
social
media
during
troubled
0mes
§ Trending
#hashtags
and
frequently
tweeted
words
§ Gezi
Park
related
tweets
by
country
§ Top
influencers
§ Two
influen0al
photos
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3. Traditional media vs. Social media coverage
May 31, 2013 -­‐‑ Turkey
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Turkish Social Media
Turkish TV Channels

4. Number of tweets in Turkey tripled on May 31st
(25M average tweets per day vs. 8M tweets)
6/2/13Source: Pulled from Twitter via Topsy Pro 4
Number of Tweets from Turkey (May 18- June 1 2013)
25M
8M

5. Tweets poured in across the clock
Turkey was up and tweeting well into the night
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Midnight
Source: Pulled from Twitter via Topsy Pro
Number of Tweets from Turkey by the hour (May 30th- June1st)
Week of May 27th-­‐‑ Thurs-­‐‑Sat tweets
Previous week –Thurs-­‐‑Sat tweets

6. Resist Gezi Park generated 4.5M+ tweets over three days
6/2/13Source: Pulled from Twitter via Topsy Pro - 28/5/2013 - 1/6/2013 4:50 pm PST 6
Trending Tweets (5/28-6/1)
Trending
Hashtags English
Translation Number
of
Tweets
#DirenGeziParki Resist
Gezi
Park
4,468,512
#OccupyGezi Occupy
Gezi 1,093,582
#TayyipIstifa Resign
Tayyip 402,402
#BuBirSivilDirenis This
is
a
civil
resistance 364,138
#Besiktas Besiktas
(an
upper
class
neighboorhood) 358,827
#DirenAnkara Resist
Ankara 357,223
#ProvokasyonaGelmiyoruz Let's
avoid
provocation 304,966
#OyunaGelmeTurkiyem Don't
get
manipulated
my
Turkey 235,819
#GeziParki Park
Gezi 209,193

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1.3
1.8
2.2
2.6
2.9
0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
Media
Back
Izmir
Ataturk
Tree
Ankara
Help
Tayyip
Public
Istanbul
Turkey
Please
Taksim
Police
Millions
Trending Twi?er Words ( May 31-­‐‑Jun 1st)
Most frequently used words in tweets from Turkey
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Translation
Turkish
Source: Pulled from Twitter via Topsy Pro
Polis
Taksim
Lutfen
Turkiye
Istanbul
Halk
Tayyip
Yardim
Ankara
Agac
Ataturk
Izmir
Geri
Medya
Most Frequently Used Words
1. Police
2. Taksim
3. Please

8. Not just Turkey but the world tweeted
Source details: Top hashtag’s tweet location info (Top hashtags used: #DirenGeziParki, #OccupyGezi, #TayyipIstifa,
#BuBirSivilDirenis, #DirenAnkara, #ProvokasyonaGelmiyoruz, #OyunaGelmeTurkiyem, #GeziParki)
Turkey
85%
Rest of
World
15%
% of Tweets by tweet location
% of Tweets by tweet location
% of Tweets by country
Excluding Turkey

9. Influential pictures (1/2)
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10. Influential pictures (2/2)
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11. Most Influential
Source: Pulled from Twitter via Topsy Pro
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